1st he announced his hand before the flop
2nd He blew the doors open with that river shove. If he were playing even 25/50 he couldn't get away with that. You say all you want to that you would hang on with top pair. Sure, if you have proper brm, you can handle losing a buy in every once in a while for the pure value of calling all of his air
hands but when you start talking about putting half a million dollars in on the river without the nuts, it's so sick. Even Ivey, a degenerate gambler who figured dwan had exactly what he had in that spot, declined to find out for half a million. Even though it looked like dwan was about to puke in that hand.
Even someone who makes $6mil/year $500k every month isn't going to be excited about stacking off a month or 2months salary against dwan.
the 72 hand made me a fan of the kid.
He's never going to be a great tournament player unless of course it's $500k,$1,000,000+ buy ins in superdeep stack.